Practice routine
Plan your daily practice as a few timed blocks, then run them with one clear timer. For any instrument or the voice.
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Your routine
The minutes are editable starting points made up for this page, not medical or teaching advice. Change them to suit you and your teacher.
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Counts the minutes the timer runs, including time the device sleeps with the timer running (up to the routine's end); skipped minutes are not counted. Kept in this browser only: nothing leaves your device.
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How it works
- A block is one part of your practice with its own length, for example ten minutes of scales. The timer runs the blocks in order and shows what comes next.
- A template is a ready-made list of blocks to start from: about 20, 30 or 60 minutes in all.
- Long notes means holding one note steady for several seconds (voice and wind instruments); on other instruments, slow, even notes or strokes.
- A block can carry a link to one of the site's tools, such as the Metronome or the Drone. It opens in a new tab, so this timer keeps running.
- The timer works from the device's clock, so it stays right when you switch tabs or apps. Some phones pause web pages while the screen is locked; the time is still right when you come back, but a chime cannot sound while the page is paused.
Indian terms: an alankar is a set pattern of notes, practised as an exercise (Hindustani music also calls it palta; Carnatic music says alankara). A raaga is the melodic framework for a piece in Indian classical music.
Your routine, the chime and screen settings and the practice log are remembered in this browser only.
Keyboard shortcuts
- Spacestart or pause
- N or →skip to the next block
- B or ←back to the start of this block (or the previous block)
- Cchime on or off
- Lcopy a link to this routine
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Letter, number and punctuation shortcuts can be turned off: use the Keyboard shortcuts switch in the footer, under Display. Space, Enter, the arrow keys and Esc keep working.